VOLUME XXVII, NO. 49 DECEMBER 4, 1974 THE WAR OF IDEAS THAT Dædalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, should have asked Theodore Roszak to contribute to its Summer 1974 issue, devoted to science and its changing relationships to the public, is of considerable interes ...

VOLUME XI, NO. 47 NOVEMBER 19, 1958 TROUBLE WITH DEFINITIONS IN one of the new books on education—dozens of them seem to come out every month—there is a section that sounds extremely reasonable, and yet, when you get to thinking about it, what the author says is by implication profoundly ...

VOLUME XXVII, NO. 1 JANUARY 2, 1974 THE BIRTH OF PHILOSOPHY A SURGING longing is behind the "return to nature" that we hear so much about these days. Even if on the surface it sometimes seems sentimental, taking the form of an uninstructed primitivism that cannot possibly last, the deep ...

VOLUME XXVII, NO. 51 DECEMBER 18, 1974 NATURE WITHOUT MAN IN an effort to explain to scientists what their account of the world and of man leaves out, Theodore Roszak (in Dædalus for last summer) points to the universal hunger of human beings to "know the meaning of their existence," rem ...

VOLUME XXVII, NO. 47 NOVEMBER 20, 1974 CLEAR AND DISTINCT IDEAS WHERE did we get the physico-mathematical model of the universe on which all the branches of science are founded, and because of which, we are now confronted by multiplying dilemmas? The answer is plain enough: the model gre ...

VOLUME XXVII, NO. 48 NOVEMBER 27, 1974 PROBLEM AND PRECEDENT WHAT is the purview of man's ethical outlook? How far does his moral responsibility extend, and on what is it based? These are questions considered by Hans Jonas in "Technology and Responsibility," in the Spring 1974 issue of S ...

VOLUME XXVII, NO. 44 OCTOBER 30, 1974 WHAT SORT OF AWAKENING? THERE is one dawning realization now going on which seems more important than any other feeling or discovery that belongs to our time. It is that knowledge, when it really is knowledge, relates to ourselves and is to be used b ...

VOLUME XXVII, NO. 52 DECEMBER 25, 1974 THE CONTEXT OF LIFE A BRIEF report in Audubon for September (Audubon is the organ of the Audubon Society) speaks of a present change in climate which seems ominous for future agriculture throughout the world. It is the consensus of atmospheric scien ...

VOLUME XXVII, NO. 45 NOVEMBER 6, 1974 ANOTHER LANGUAGE THE quest for self-knowledge is a delicate, uncertain, and contradictory affair. That such knowledge exists and can be obtained seems beyond question. Its reality is attested not only by the deep longings of those who seek it, but al ...

VOLUME XXVII, NO. 10 MARCH 6, 1974 THE UNCHANGING QUESTION WHAT must I do? This is the question we ask ourselves, again and again. For the most part, men take counsel from their times to obtain answers. If the times supply a living faith, well and good. For then men find ways to define w ...